Sentences with phrase «like about the decades»

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«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

«We should not just let it be about «Oh this man behaved like this» and «This is so shocking,» or all of that,» Shah Rukh Khan, another top movie star who's worked in Bollywood for three decades, told Business Insider.

«We're hugely unexcited about that,» Ray says, recalling the long litany of failed startups over the past two decades that have tried to make a go at offering similar high - speed Internet or cable TV - like services wirelessly.

North Korea's hidden artillery pieces have managed to deter outside invaders for decades, but with Kim scrambling to perfect his fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles and top US officials viewing Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions like a ticking time bomb, the use of the US's most advanced aircraft in exercises signals the US is serious about the possibility of war.

Ecomagination's decade - long manufacturing of energy - efficient technologies like these — along with the acquisition of Alstom's power division last year — has now made GE responsible for about one - third of the world's electricity capacity, making its commitment to clean energy a critical step for the future.

Microsoft, for example, has reduced itself to heckling Google with two campaigns: «Scroogled,» about the alleged evils of Google's e-mail advertising policy (something that consumers have met with a shrug ever since Gmail's introduction nearly a decade ago); and the «Bing It On Challenge,» in which people on the street pick the search results they like best (which apes the old Pepsi Challenge — a campaign that defined Pepsi by what it isn't, and thus condemned it to being Coke's bridesmaid forever).

When I got out of the military a decade ago, my story went something like this: Recently discharged veteran wants to meet the world's most interesting people, write about them, and find a way to make a living.

Most have been there for decades, and they get so delighted talking about working there that they make Google (GOOG) employees look like detainees.

I can imagine that in about a decade, when you come to Khan Academy, you'll literally feel like you're in a virtual place of learning and in a community.

Just look at our current political situation: those worried about Trump have to contend with the fact that the power of the executive branch has been dramatically expanded over the decades; we place immense responsibility and capability in the hands of one person, forgetting that said responsibility and capability is not so easily withdrawn if we don't like the one wielding it.

Could stand to learn a few things about becoming a recognizable name, a household brand or a leading expert like my clients who have appeared on the major national TV shows, in the most prestigious magazines, radio shows and Internet sites... and have helped sell millions of dollars worth of my clients» books, products, professional services, and promoted causes that have changed the world for the better, using popular media to tell their stories for over two decades?

Despite some investors waxing rhapsodic about things like «mass collaboration and sharing enabled by technology and global communications networks,» S&P 500 Index revenues have grown at a nominal rate of just 3.2 % annually over the past 20 years, and just 1.6 % annually over the past decade, and that includes the benefit of stock buybacks.

In an email exchange on Friday, we asked Taleb about how investors should think about a risk like North Korea, where decades of saber - rattling has yet to evolve into a major military conflict.

These are helpful.You are right that market failures have hit elder popluation in heavy way in past decade or so, and on top of that the fed locks interest at artificial rate low, so if we did save like our wise elder and financial advisors told us to do, we now get about nothing at all in interest return on those life savings.

So when we think about where we're at with financial markets here in 2017 things are strange and not like they used to be if you'd go back a decade earlier.

«It has become increasingly common over the past few decades for insurance producers, like broker - dealers, to recast themselves as financial advisors or retirement planners in order to attract clients seeking objective, professional advice about their retirement and other investments,» the CFA says.

I don't like predictions, and I'll never make short term predictions, but I'll venture a wild guess about the next decade.

Still more broadly, the Internet as it has evolved over the past couple of decades is essentially a data gathering machine, in which we all trade information about ourselves — our likes and dislikes, what we look at on the Web, our countless online utterances — in exchange for free services we need, or merely enjoy.

Maybe you don't feel comfortable about a permanent commitment to an energy company, so a firm like General Mills, Anheuser Busch, Kraft, Hershey, or Berkshire Hathaway (which presumably will get around to paying a dividend sometime in the next decade or so) would be a better fit on your permanent list given your risk profile.

And having read it and though about it for decades, I can state that many of the stories are poor attempts at literature or history, unless you like thinly veiled plagiarism.

For many decades those who don't like something about someone else pretend to know that the young will change things their way.

To fully understand sixstepsrecords means to understand a decade - old movement called Passion, a metaphorical family with its own mother and father figures, four artists who really do act a lot like brothers, and a fairly obscure Old Testament tale about hauling around the Ark of the Covenant.

I have said before about this so I wont go on again about it (sigh of relief from your readers... LoL) but I feel that this decade will see more people like myself.

The long prelude is over — the nearly two decades when those of us who knew about global warming felt like prisoners in a bad dream, unable to convince anyone else that the bear was real, the poison deadly.

It took me about two decades to discover figs for the first time and I feel like I missed out for so long.

What should have been presented is decade long trends about: farm and processor bank debt; return on equity; full and part - time employment trends; farm and processor business numbers; domestic versus overseas value adding to commodities; volume and value of imported ingredients and products; international versus Australian processing costs comparisons for major foods like meats, flour, oils, milk products; and the farm gate price share of the consumer dollar for fresh foods like fruit and vegetables, milk, meats, bread, juice, eggs.

I don't understand why Wenger still wants to remain so secretive about his targets, when most of the time he messes it up himself by under bidding by a country mile for the player and it's not as if the other clubs are spying on his transfer activities, like they used to, a decade ago.

It feels like if I didn't say anything — if I ran out of the room right then, sobbing — he'd just tidy up a few papers on his desk and go back about his job of being Barry Alvarez, the former Badgers head coach who took Wisconsin to three Rose Bowls after decades of irrelevance, then signed the check for his own bronze statue as the school's athletic director.

And when you look back at the last decade, none of those youngsters have progressed in the way that they were hyped up to and yes I'm talking about the likes of Ramsey, Walcott, Jack Wheelchair and the Ox who all had a one season wonder of some sort, during one point in their Arsenal careers, thus far and We can't keep using this excuse for not buying ready made quality, which would instantly improve our chances of winning a major trophy or two, but No, Wenger wants to stick with a theory which clearly isn't working for us on the pitch, but he doesn't really care, as long as it works out well for saving the penny's and the pounds, in the place where it matters most for Arsenal fc, in the bank.

As usual at this time of year the long - suffering Arsenal supporters start protesting about Arsene Wenger's lack of trophies over the last decade, and just like every other season, Wenger and the Board just shrug it off as a «tiny minority» of real Arsenal fans.

As you know its not just being injury free it's about the right amount of maturity at the right time and about players really believing in the squad, we have tat no for the first time in a decade but we are still short, you can't tell m that you do nt suspect that here won't be any more major signings because it's the demon at the back of every Arsenal fans mind, I mean its not like its not happend before is it?

But he's had my back 140, 150 games every year for over a decade now, and it almost feels like I'm getting younger with each passing year, so I don't talk about that much.

Its always more about balancing the books than it is about moving forward and that's a fact Next season will be the best chance we've had in a decade to really compete with the oil rich clubs and Wenger is acting like its another day at the office while all the talented players in the 2 positions we need to fill are drifting towards clubs that are showing interest.

A DECADE AGO and rising every catastrophic day this old has been stays clinging to his job, like a drowning man clings to a log that is about to be torn from his incompetant, desperate and arrogant grasp.

Didn't kenny Rogers pen a song about wenger... The man is a joker can't stand seeing him on the bench any more sitting there like a giant Gallic slug in his stupid sleeping bag... Old tired arrogant failure... That's it really... just want him gone and whatever results determine that are fine with me... I can't believe the club I've supported over three decades has been brought to this state by an indifferent board and an idiot manager... It's utterly bizarre and despairing

The steroid era sure seems like it was the era of steroids, but it's still probably improperly named, since there were plenty of other aspects at play that caused offense to rise: smaller ballparks, multiple expansions in the decade that (temporarily) diluted the talent pool in MLB, and juiced baseballs as proven by studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and written about by Jay Jaffe.

For all the talk about Arsenal are now something more than what they have been over the past decade or so — the kind of club that would find a legit star like a van Persie or a Sánchez only to let them go win titles elsewhere in England — moves like this latest transfer seem to say that Arsenal remain who they've long been, and they don't have much interest in changing that.

You now have the freedom, time and energy to think about what you want the next decades to look like; I hope you explore that with gusto!

Judging by the comments people are leaving on websites like Huffington Post, etc., a marriage contract isn't a «real» marriage (although a marriage license is just a legal document, and marriage throughout the decades and all over the globe has always been about increasing wealth and / or status, mostly for men, but whatever).

There have been warnings about using them like this for decades now, but go into any store and you'll see the idiot parent with their baby up on the shopping cart in the bucket seat.

In all these decades there was only one officer in the Department of Health, the chief medical officer of the late 1940s, Dr James Deeny who had the courage to speak up and speak out, to make the connections about institutions like Bessborough and about what women needed by way of better maternity services which had to be truly, unambiguously without contradiction, publicly accountable.

... Maybe the tenets of a successful marriage should not be whether the couple stays monogamous for decades, but rather whether the couple openly communicates about what their unique marriage will look like, what will be deemed acceptable and what will not, and then honoring that joint decision.

Huggies Pull - Ups ® had a great website back then (I say «back then» like it was decades ago, when it was only about four years ago.

As a therapist who has taught on the national level for over a decade to families and childcare organizations like Parents As Teachers, First Steps, Children's Hope International, and more about the value of attachment, I knew that truly gentle sleep support for parents was hard to come by and too often attached to a big price tag (from $ 50 to sometimes $ 350 for private coaching, site memberships, books / videos, etc).

But since the World Health Organization published a report about a decade ago saying that babies should be exclusively breastfed until 6 months, countries like the UK and US have recommended parents hold off until then.

Fate intervened in several unlikely ways in the two ensuing decades and then last fall, Weber, now a fixture in the national Farm to School Network, found himself waxing enthusiastic about local produce to a woman who was part of an effort called Homegrown Minneapolis, which would like to see more of that farmstead goodness put before MPS kids and other locals.

«If you're going to write 90 checks like he did, then the odds that at least one of those New York State elected officials hasn't been convicted of a crime over the past decade are about as good the odds you pick a NCAA tournament bracket perfectly.»

The verdict was a quick and unceremonious end for Mr. Silver, who, during his more than two decades as the State Assembly speaker, displayed a Teflon - like quality in deflecting questions about his outside income as well as calls for his ouster.

«The truth about this is that there isn't a reform programme that is going to come to a halt and then everything is going to go into a steady state and will remain like that for decades to come.

«We would like to see him think more seriously about running for top office,» said Molinari, one of Kelly's biggest boosters for more than two decades.